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| Los Angeles, CA— Streams and wetlands in California are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to a report released today by Environment California, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It. | |
| The water that comes out of your tap may meet all the federal clean drinking water standards, but still be dangerous to your health. Arsenic, manganese and perchlorate (rocket fuel) are among the chemicals that you might find in the water you use to drink, cook, bathe and clean. | |
| Environment California released an analysis today documenting that, from the cleanup and disclosure of toxic waste to drinking water standards, Sen. John McCain has too often taken the side of polluters in opposing stronger protections for our waterways. | |
| More than 69% percent of industrial and municipal facilities across California discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment California | |
| A new report released today reveals that Goodrich Corporation, along with other companies responsible for California perchlorate pollution in drinking water, are funding a coordinated effort to downplay the risks of contamination to public health. | |
| Inland Valley residents called upon the State Department of Health Services to strengthen its proposed drinking water standard for perchlorate at a state hearing held yesterday to take public comment on the state's proposed limit. | |
| Nearly ten years after the first discovery of perchlorate contamination in Rialto drinking water supplies, today the staff of the Santa Ana Regional Water Board issued the first proposed cleanup order against Goodrich Corporation, a major suspected cause of the contamination crisis. | |
| Santa Ana Water Board Chair Carol Beswick committed her agency last night to stronger action to clean up perchlorate pollution in the Rialto region. | |
| New pollution tests show a new pulse of toxic perchlorate pollution threatens to spread to Rialto drinking water wells without action to halt the spread of contamination. | |
| A new Environment California Research & Policy report released today reveals the presence of 57 pesticides in the waters and soils of the San Joaquin River system. The vast majority of these chemicals are linked to a host of health threats that range from cancer to brain damage. | |
| Yesterday the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the first standard in the country for rocket fuel pollution in drinking water. While the standard, proposed at 2 parts per billion, will not fully protect infants and developing fetuses from contamination, it is three times stronger than an equivalent standard currently being contemplated by the California Department of Health Services. | |
| State Senator Wesley Chesbro, Assembly member Paul Koretz, and leaders of the Karuk Indian Tribe joined with environmentalists today in calling for the cleanup of nine of the biggest polluted waterways in the state, as required under the original Clean Water Act more than thirty years ago and again under recent court orders and U.S. EPA policy. | |
| City residents, local community groups and state environmental organizations united in opposition today to a proposed settlement agreement between the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board and a party suspected of contaminating local drinking water supplies with rocket fuel. | |
| City residents, local community groups and state environmental organizations united today in submitting an official petition, supported by one thousand local residents, to the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board. | |
| Several celebrities, including Erin Brockovich, Don Cheadle, Alec Baldwin and Dylan McDermott submitted a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger today, calling for immediate action to clean up rocket fuel contamination of the Colorado River. | |
| Despite new data showing the presence of the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate in the milk of nursing mothers and widespread contamination of food, California Environmental Protection Agency will move forward with a final public health goal (PHG) for perchlorate that fails to protect newborn infants from perchlorate and may let the biggest polluters in the state off the hook. | |
